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If not for Trump, what's the emoluments clause for? What's impeachment for? What's the 25th Amendment for? What's section 3 of the 14th Amendment for? What are checks and balances for?

The baddies are cherrypicking the Constitution the same way they do the bible: for their own benefit.

Ossoff: "You were talking earlier about Jared Kushner. The guy leading our diplomacy in the Middle East is bringing in billions from Middle Eastern princes and sheiks and going around the region asking for billions more while he conducts nuclear diplomacy on behalf of the country. It's obscene."

A mall in free fall? Another Towson Town Center tenant is leaving. The latest by @briaovers.bsky.social in @thebaltimorebanner.com

“Cusp” makes it sounds like this a prototype supersonic airliner exists on a factory floor somewhere. The reality is that NASA and Lockheed are testing a single seater X-plane that is flying but still has not worked up to Mach 1 yet and Boom Aerospace has made a bunch of so-far empty promises.

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HEAD QUARTERS MORRIS TOWN 12TH MARCH 1777 Sir You are hereby required immediately to send me an exact return of your regiment, and to send all your recruits, who have had the small pox to join the Army. Those, who have not, are to be sent to Philadelphia, and put under the direction of the commanding officer there, who will have them inoculated. You are to leave a sufficient number of proper officers to carry on the recruiting service, who are to bring up their men as soon as they are ready. No pleas, of delay, on account of the dispersion of the officers can be admitted, as every commanding officer ought to know where his inferior officers are, and they what recruits they have, and where they are to be found. You are to remain at Philadelphia, to procure arms clothing &c., and send on, your Major to Camp, to receive your detachments. Your Lieut. Colonel is also to come on, as soon as circumstances will permit. I am Sir Your most humble servant Go: Washington George Washington wrote this letter to Lt. Colonel David Grier on March 12, 1777. In it, Washington instructs Grier to send new soldiers to Philadelphia so they could be inoculated for smallpox. Washington wanted to make sure that his troops were not affected by disease, and he believed that inoculation would help with that. So, just before this letter was written, Washington created a mandated system of inoculating his soldiers.

George Washington wrote this letter to Lt. Col. David Grier on March 12, 1777. In it, Washington instructs Grier to send new soldiers to Philadelphia so they could be inoculated for smallpox... just before this letter was written, Washington created a mandated system of inoculating his soldiers."

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surely no army in military history has ever been laid low by disease, a famously uncommon problem among people living in enforced close quarters

Is someone going to tell him that the flu killed more US troops in WWI than any battle did (and that war had chemical weapons so horrific that they were banned afterwards)?

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Yes, well.

You think I could explain phenomenon I've lived with for decades.

Partly that, yes, I think your sisters and I would have a lot in common. But there's something about a number line that just baffles me, and it's not really math, it's sort of the concept of numbers.

Same, same. In Florence, a little kid all bundled up against the cold, hollered to his mother to look at the moon. And though he was speaking Italian, the sentence went straight into my brain, no translation at all, and I have never forgotten it.

tired: its the Department of Defense (est. 1947)

hired: its the War Department (1789-1947)

wired: we're bringing back rum rations, handsaw amputations, trench foot, latrines made of pure cholera, and other manly things of that nature

everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"

For me, reading Shakespeare is hard going until I've read enough of it that I get the hang of it. It's probably the same as with a foreign language. At some point you stop translating and just hear it. As you said.

And he said, how did you get so far with so little fuel?

I took it as a compliment.

Astronomer said, you know, you just take the first derivative and then the second derivative. And I said, what's a derivative?

A true story. Famous astronomer said, the future is just a Taylor expansion of the past. I said, what's a Taylor expansion

There should be a nice name for that one point. Is there?

And really, I do thank you. You were kind to take the time and effort.

I occasionally suspect math is an arbitrary system for messing with my head. That doesn't mean I haven't tried over the years, but eventually some things about your brain you just have to accept.

So-40f just happens to equal-40c but that doesn't mean f = c in all cases.

Well that is admirably clear and I think you are a very nice person for helping out with my education.

Never felt so seen by Galileo.

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I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying